Portrait of Mass Murder. Welby Thomas Cox, Jr.

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      "You want me to show you how we put out the lights in the ranches, I suppose?"

      "Yes," they said; "tell us anything of Western life."

      "Well, here goes," he said, and at once drew his revolver and began popping away at the beautiful globe lamps which adorned the car! Of course all the party stampeded for the door. They had had enough of Sam's stories.”

       The Author:

      It is a rule for the last one that gets into bed to put out the light; but a lazy fellow will crawl into bed and, taking aim, extinguish the light by firing off his pistol at the flame!

      A "Ranch" is simply a one-story log-house, with two or three rooms, and a thatched roof of straw. Sometimes they are made of a-do-be,--a kind of dried clay-brick, such as are found in Mexico and some parts of California and Texas